[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the 9-1-1 Season 8 finale “Seismic Shifts.”]
The excellent news: 9-1-1 Season 8 ends with nobody else leaving the 118. Which means Buck’s (Oliver Stark) not transferring and Eddie’s (Ryan Guzman) not transferring again to Texas. Chimney (Kenneth Choi) places his foot down after the firefighters assist save the victims of the constructing collapse that ended the season’s penultimate episode.
Athena (Angela Bassett) is first on scene and the one to seek out these probably the most injured within the laundry room, the place the explosion originated: Graham and Donnie. Chimney joins her, although Hen (Aisha Hinds) presents to go as an alternative because of the rigidity between the 2, and in the long run, their sufferers parallel what occurred with Bobby (Peter Krause) and Bobby. Graham helps them save Donnie, solely to disclose he was worse off. The excellent news? With Chimney taking lead in the course of the rescue, they’re in a position to save everybody. And after, Chimney and Athena are strong as soon as once more. As she tells him, Bobby all the time stated he by no means gave himself any credit score however he knew he was a sensible, proficient, succesful paramedic and an ideal chief, and he’d be so pleased with him.
Talking of being a pacesetter … Eddie nearly leaves for the airport to return to Texas, just for his son Christopher (Gavin McHugh) to alert him to the constructing collapse on the information. And so he grabs the turnouts he’d been gifted and goes down to assist, finally rescuing Buck, Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody), and a tenant who’d been trapped with a biplane throughout the road from one other constructing.
When Oliver Stark and Aisha Hinds just lately stopped by TV Insider’s workplace, we talked to them in regards to the finale, together with filming the catastrophe and that rescue. Stark shared that what helps is that there’s no inexperienced display screen.
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“We’re in conditions the place we’re surrounded by tons of rubble, so it makes it makes it simpler to be very current within the scene,” he defined. “I used to be dissatisfied as a result of I didn’t really get to zip line throughout the road downtown. I bought to do little five-foot increments of it, so it wasn’t fairly as thrilling. … The manufacturing worth and the work that goes into constructing the manufacturing up makes our job a lot simpler. And it’s dusty and it’s soiled and it’s darkish and it’s cramped. There’s no getting away from these issues, so there’s no phoning it in from our half. We’re, in these moments, coping with it because it’s taking place.”
Upon everybody returning again to the 118, Chimney made it clear that nobody was transferring (Buck) or staying in Texas (Eddie). “That is our firehouse. That is the 118. And it’s not only a quantity, it’s us. And also you’re proper, Buck. Issues are by no means going to be the identical once more as a result of Cap is gone. However leaving received’t change that. It received’t make you are feeling any much less unhappy. It simply signifies that you’ll be unhappy on their lonesome. Bobby died so I may stay, and it has screwed me up in methods I can’t totally specific, however the fact is, he would have completed that for any certainly one of us. He knew that simply coming into work daily, there’s an opportunity that a number of of us wouldn’t make it residence, and his job above the whole lot else was to guarantee that we did. And we’re all standing right here proper now due to him. This staff, we’re his legacy. So we are able to miss him, and we are able to mourn him, and we are able to even curse his title, however we’re not going to disrespect him by throwing away what he constructed proper right here. So that you cling up your turnouts, you hit the showers, you go residence, and also you get some relaxation as a result of we’re all going to see one another on our subsequent shift, proper right here, collectively. Understood?” Hen instantly responds, “Copy that, Cap, I imply, Chim.”
It definitely felt like that was setting it up for Chimney to be captain in Season 9, however that has but to be seen. For now, each Aisha Hinds and Oliver Stark say their characters can be all for it.
“I believe that Hen has super respect for Chimney, and so I believe that she would give him the help and the respect that that position requires. I believe for Hen particularly, although the chief supplied the place to her, she’s all the time been in a position to bounce out and in of the position understanding that Bobby was coming again to it. And so I believe this places it in a unique context for her,” Hinds defined. “And so I believe she felt comfy type of declining that place.”
Stark agreed. “It’s a job that Buck in all probability sees himself sooner or later hoping to do, however I don’t assume he would really feel comfy wanting that place now. I believe he appears at Hen and Chimney and he’s like, ‘These are the folks that I look as much as.’ They’re each bit lower from the identical material as Bobby was, and I believe he’d don’t have anything however admiration and respect for Chimney within the position.”
The season ended with wrapping up some storylines. Each Buck and Athena want new houses; Eddie moved again in, and Athena put the home she and Bobby have been constructing collectively available on the market. In happier information, Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) gave beginning, and she or he and Chimney named their son Robert Nash Han. “Good day, Bobby,” Athena stated, holding him, to finish the finale.
“Seismic Shifts” additionally noticed some comfortable information for Hen and Karen (Tracie Thoms): They lastly adopted Mara! Hinds agreed that the couple had been ready for an additional shoe to drop all season.
“We’ve got been going by means of this course of for thus many seasons that we form of all the time put together our coronary heart to not be too linked to the kids as a result of sooner or later they’re going to take ’em away, which I believe mirrors type of the truth of the scenario with individuals. So we had type of adopted that very same sensibility, however after they gave us that scene and we bought to shoot that scene, it was similar to a breath of contemporary air,” she recalled. “It was a lot pleasure and pleasure for us because the characters and us because the actors taking part in the roles as a result of so many individuals all the time say, ‘Are you able to let Hen and Karen simply have pleasure? Simply give them pleasure for just a few episodes, allow them to be a household.’ And so right here we’re. We get to be a household.”
Watch the complete video interview above with Oliver Stark and Aisha Hinds in regards to the Season 8 finale, shedding Bobby and Peter Krause, and their hopes for subsequent yr for his or her characters.
9-1-1, Season 9, Fall 2025, Thursdays, 8/7c, ABC